Operation Nordwind, 1944-1945
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Name (Hebrew)
מבצע נורדווינד, 1944-1945
Name (Latin)
Operation Nordwind, 1944-1945
Other forms of name
Nordwind Offensive, 1944-1945
Nordwind Operation, 1944-1945
See Also From tracing topical name
World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q327044
Library of congress:
sh2002009721
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Zoepf, W. Seven days in January with the 6th SS-Mountain Division in Operation Nordwind, c2001.
- US Army Center of Military History website, Jan. 29, 2002:brochure (Ardennes-Alsace: the US Army Campaigns of World War II: NORDWIND in Alsace, 31 December-5 January: By 21 December Hitler had decided on a new offensive, this time in the Alsace region ... The first operation, called NORDWIND ("NORTHWIND" ...)
- 100th Infantry Division Association website, Jan. 29, 2002(The German View (a bibliography): The NORDWIND Offensive (January 1945): "Report Concerning the Participation of the 559th Volks-Grenadier Division in Operation 'NORDWIND,'" by K. Freiherr von der Mühlen, 1947; "Participation by the 257th Volks-Grenadier Division in the Offensive Operation 'NORDWIND,'" by E. Linke, 1947)
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German counter in Alsace Lorraine
US Army Military History Institute, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
Operation Northwind (German: Unternehmen Nordwind) was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front. Northwind was launched to support the German Ardennes offensive campaign in the Battle of the Bulge, which by late December 1944 had decisively turned against the German forces. It began on 31 December 1944 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Alsace and Lorraine in southwestern Germany and northeastern France, and ended on 25 January 1945. The German offensive was an operational failure, with its main objectives not achieved.
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